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RUDIMENTAL  DIVINE 
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RUDIMENTAL 


DIVINE    SCIENCE 


BY 


MARY   BAKER   G.  EDDY 

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AUTHOR    OF    SCIENCE    AND    HEALTH   WITH    KEY   TO 
THE    SCRIPTURES 


Sixty-first    Thousand 


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UNIVERSITY 


BOSTON,  U.S.A. 

Published  by  Allison  V.  Stewart 

FALMOUTH  AND  ST.  PAUL  STREETS 

1909 


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Copyright,  1891,  1908 
BY  MARY  BAKER  G.   EDDY 


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THB   UNIVERSITY   PRESS,    CAMBRIDGE,   U.S.A. 


THIS   LITTLE   BOOK 

IS 
TENDERLY   AND    RESPECTFULLY    DEDICATED 

TO    ALL 

LOYAL   STUDENTS,  WORKING    AND    WAITING 

FOR    THE    ESTABLISHMENT    OF    THE 

SCIENCE    OF   MIND-HEALING 

MARY   BAKER   G.   EDDY 


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CONTENTS 

PACK 

DEFINITION  OF  CHRISTIAN  SCIENCE i 

PRINCIPLE  OF  CHRISTIAN  SCIENCE i 

PERSONALITY  OF  GOD i 

HEALING  SICKNESS  AND  SIN 2 

INDIVIDUALITY  OF  GOD 3 

MATERIAL  AND  SPIRITUAL  SCIENCE 4 

NON-EXISTENCE  OF  MATTER 4 

MATERIALITY  INTANGIBLE 6 

BASIS  OF   MIND-HEALING ,  6 

MATERIAL  AND  SPIRITUAL  MAN 7 

DEMONSTRATION  IN  HEALING 8 

MEANS  AND  METHODS 13 

ONLY  ONE  SCHOOL  16 


EUDIMENTAL  DIVINE 
SCIENCE 


How  would  you  define  Christian  Science? 

A  S  the  law  of  God,  the  law  of  good,  interpreting  and 
•*•  *•  demonstrating  the  divine  Principle  and  rule  of 
universal  harmony. 

What  is  the  Principle  of  Christian  Science  f 

It  is  God,  the  Supreme  Being,  infinite  and  immortal 
Mind,  the  Soul  of  man  and  the  universe.  It  is  our  Father 
which  is  in  heaven.  It  is  substance,  Spirit,  Life,  Truth, 
and  Love,  —  these  are  the  deific  Principle. 

Do  you  mean  by  this  that  God  is  a  person? 

The  word  person  affords  a  large  margin  for  misappre- 
hension, as  well  as  definition.  In  French  the  equivalent 
word  is  personne.  In  Spanish,  Italian,  and  Latin,  it  is 
persona.  The  Latin  verb  personare  is  compounded  of 
the  prefix  per  (through)  and  sonar e  (to  sound). 

In  law,  Blackstone  applies  the  word  personal  to  bodily 
presence,  in  distinction  from  one's  appearance  (in  court, 
for  example)  by  deputy  or  proxy. 


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Other  definitions  of  person,  as  given  by  Webster,  are 
"a  living  soul;  a  self-conscious  being;  a  moral  agent; 
especially,  a  living  human  being,  a  corporeal  man,  woman, 
or  child;  an  individual  of  the  human  race."  He  adds, 
that  among  Trinitarian  Christians  the  word  stands  for  one 
of  the  three  subjects,  or  agents,  constituting  the  Godhead. 

In  Christian  Science  we  learn  that  God  is  definitely  indi- 
vidual, and  not  a  person,  as  that  word  is  used  by  the  best 
authorities,  if  our  lexicographers  are  right  in  defining 
person  as  especially  a  finite  human  being;  but  God  is 
personal,  if  by  person  is  meant  infinite  Spirit. 

We  do  not  conceive  rightly  of  God,  if  we  think  of  Him 
as  less  than  infinite.  The  human  person  is  finite;  and 
therefore  I  prefer  to  retain  the  proper  sense  of  Deity  by 
using  the  phrase  an  individual  God,  rather  than  a  per- 
sonal God ;  for  there  is  and  can  be  but  one  infinite  indi- 
vidual Spirit,  whom  mortals  have  named  God. 

Science  defines  the  individuality  of  God  as  supreme 
good,  Life,  Truth,  Love.  This  term  enlarges  our  sense 
of  Deity,  takes  away  the  trammels  assigned  to  God  by 
finite  thought,  and  introduces  us  to  higher  definitions. 

Is  healing  the  sick  the  whole  of  Science f 

Healing  physical  sickness  is  the  smallest  part  of  Chris- 
tian Science.  It  is  only  the  bugle-call  to  thought  and 
action,  in  the  higher  range  of  infinite  goodness.  The 
emphatic  purpose  of  Christian  Science  is  the  healing  of 
sin;  and  this  task,  sometimes,  may  be  harder  than  the 


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cure  of  disease;  because,  while  mortals  love  to  sin,  they 
do  not  love  to  be  sick.  Hence  their  comparative  acqui- 
escence in  your  endeavors  to  heal  them  of  bodily  ills,  and 
their  obstinate  resistance  to  all  efforts  to  save  them  from 
sin  through  Christ,  spiritual  Truth  and  Love,  which 
redeem  them,  and  become  their  Saviour,  through  the 
flesh,  from  the  flesh,  —  the  material  world  and  evil. 

This  Life,  Truth,  and  Love  —  this  trinity  of  good  —  was 
individualized,  to  the  perception  of  mortal  sense,  in  the 
man  Jesus.  His  history  is  emphatic  in  our  hearts,  and  it 
lives  more  because  of  his  spiritual  than  his  physical  healing. 
His  example  is,  to  Christian  Scientists,  what  the  models 
of  the  masters  in  music  and  painting  are  to  artists. 

Genuine  Christian  Scientists  will  no  more  deviate  mor- 
ally from  that  divine  digest  of  Science  called  the  Sermon 
on  the  Mount,  than  they  will  manipulate  invalids,  prescribe 
drugs,  or  deny  God.  Jesus'  healing  was  spiritual  in  its 
nature,  method,  and  design.  He  wrought  the  cure  of 
disease  through  the  divine  Mind,  which  gives  all  true 
volition,  impulse,  and  action;  and  destroys  the  mental 
error  made  manifest  physically,  and  establishes  the  oppo- 
site manifestation  of  Truth  upon  the  body  in  harmony 
and  health. 

By  the  individuality  of  God,  do  you  mean  that  God  has 
a  -finite  form? 

No.  I  mean  the  infinite  and  divine  Principle  of  all 
being,  the  ever-present  I  AM,  filling  all  space,  including 


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in  itself  all  Mind,  the  one  Father-Mother  God.  Life, 
Truth,  and  Love  are  this  trinity  in  unity,  and  their  uni- 
verse is  spiritual,  peopled  with  perfect  beings,  harmonious 
and  eternal,  of  which  our  material  universe  and  men  are 
the  counterfeits. 

Is  God  the  Principle  of  all  science,  or  only  of  Divine  or 
Christian  Science  f 

Science  is  Mind  manifested.  It  is  not  material ;  neither 
is  it  of  human  origin. 

All  true  Science  represents  a  moral  and  spiritual  force, 
which  holds  the  earth  in  its  orbit.  This  force  is  Spirit, 
that  can  "bind  the  sweet  influences  of  the  Pleiades,"  and 
"loose  the  bands  of  Orion." 

There  is  no  material  science,  if  by  that  term  you  mean 
material  intelligence.  God  is  infinite  Mind,  hence  there 
is  no  other  Mind.  Good  is  Mind,  but  evil  is  not  Mind. 
Good  is  not  in  evil,  but  in  God  only.  Spirit  is  not  in  matter, 
but  in  Spirit  only.  Law  is  not  in  matter,  but  in  Mind  only. 

Is  there  no  matter  f 

All  is  Mind.  According  to  the  Scriptures  and  Christian 
Science,  all  is  God,  and  there  is  naught  beside  Him.  "  God 
is  Spirit;"  and  we  can  only  learn  and  love  Him  through 
His  spirit,  which  brings  out  the  fruits  of  Spirit  and  ex- 
tinguishes forever  the  works  of  darkness  by  His  marvel- 
lous light. 

The   five  material   senses   testify   to   the   existence   of 


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matter.  The  spiritual  senses  afford  no  such  evidence, 
but  deny  the  testimony  of  the  material  senses.  Which 
testimony  is  correct?  The  Bible  says:  "Let  God  be 
true,  and  every  man  a  liar."  If,  as  the  Scriptures  imply, 
God  is  All-in-all,  then  all  must  be  Mind,  since  God  is 
Mind.  Therefore  in  divine  Science  there  is  no  material 
mortal  man,  for  man  is  spiritual  and  eternal,  he  being 
made  in  the  image  of  Spirit,  or  God. 

There  is  no  material  sense.  Matter  is  inert,  inanimate, 
and  sensationless,  —  considered  apart  from  Mind.  Lives 
there  a  man  who  has  ever  found  Soul  in  the  body  or  in 
matter,  who  has  ever  seen  spiritual  substance  with  the 
eye,  who  has  found  sight  in  matter,  hearing  in  the  material 
ear,  or  intelligence  in  non-intelligence?  If  there  is  any 
such  thing  as  matter,  it  must  be  either  mind  which  is 
called  matter,  or  matter  without  Mind. 

Matter  without  Mind  is  a  moral  impossibility.  Mind 
in  matter  is  pantheism.  Soul  is  the  only  real  conscious- 
ness which  cognizes  being.  The  body  does  not  see,  hear, 
smell,  or  taste.  Human  belief  says  that  it  does;  but 
destroy  this  belief  of  seeing  with  the  eye,  and  we  could 
not  see  materially;  and  so  it  is  with  each  of  the  physical 
senses. 

Accepting  the  verdict  of  these  material  senses,  we  should 
believe  man  and  the  universe  to  be  the  football  of  chance 
and  sinking  into  oblivion.  Destroy  the  five  senses  as 
organized  matter,  and  you  must  either  become  non-exist- 
ent, or  exist  in  Mind  only;  and  this  latter  conclusion  is 


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the  simple  solution  of  the  problem  of  being,  and  leads  to 
the  equal  inference  that  there  is  no  matter. 

The  sweet  sounds  and  glories  of  earth  and  sky,  assum- 
ing manifold  forms  and  colors ,  —  are  they  not  tangible  and 
material? 

As  Mind  they  are  real,  but  not  as  matter.  All  beauty 
and  goodness  are  in  and  of  Mind,  emanating  from  God ; 
but  when  we  change  the  nature  of  beauty  and  goodness 
from  Mind  to  matter,  the  beauty  is  marred,  through  a 
false  conception,  and,  to  the  material  senses,  evil  takes 
the  place  of  good. 

Has  not  the  truth  in  Christian  Science  met  a  response 
from  Prof.  S.  P.  Langley,  the  young  American  astronomer  ? 
He  says  that  "color  is  in  us,"  not  "in  the  rose;"  and  he 
adds  that  this  is  not  "any  metaphysical  subtlety,"  but  a 
fact  "almost  universally  accepted,  within  the  last  few 
years,  by  physicists." 

Is  not  the  basis  of  Mind-healing  a  destruction  of  the  evi- 
dence of  the  material  senses,  and  restoration  of  the  true 
evidence  of  spiritual  sense  f 

It  is,  so  far  as  you  perceive  and  understand  this  predi- 
cate and  postulate  of  Mind-healing;  but  the  Science  of 
Mind-healing  is  best  understood  in  practical  demonstra- 
tion. The  proof  of  what  you  apprehend,  in  the  simplest 
definite  and  absolute  form  of  healing,  can  alone  answer 
this  question  of  how  much  you  understand  of  Christian 


RUDIMENTAL  DIVINE  SCIENCE  7 

Science  Mind-healing.  Not  that  all  healing  is  Science, 
by  any  means ;  but  that  the  simplest  case,  healed  in  Science, 
is  as  demonstrably  scientific,  in  a  small  degree,  as  the  most 
difficult  case  so  treated. 

The  infinite  and  subtler  conceptions  and  consistencies 
of  Christian  Science  are  set  forth  in  my  work  Science  and 
Health. 

Is  man  material  or  spiritual? 

In  Science,  man  is  the  manifest  reflection  of  God,  per- 
fect and  immortal  Mind.  He  is  the  likeness  of  God ;  and 
His  likeness  would  be  lost  if  inverted  or  perverted. 

According  to  the  evidence  of  the  so-called  physical 
senses,  man  is  material,  fallen,  sick,  depraved,  mortal. 
Science  and  spiritual  sense  contradict  this,  and  they  afford 
the  only  true  evidence  of  the  being  of  God  and  man,  the 
material  evidence  being  wholly  false. 

Jesus  said  of  personal  evil,  that  "the  truth  abode  not 
in  him,'*  because  there  is  no  material  sense.  Matter,  as 
matter,  has  neither  sensation  nor  personal  intelligence. 
As  a  pretension  to  be  Mind,  matter  is  a  lie,  and  "the 
father  of  lies;"  Mind  is  not  in  matter,  and  Spirit  cannot 
originate  its  opposite,  named  matter. 

According  to  divine  Science,  Spirit  no  more  changes  its 
species,  by  evolving  matter  from  Spirit,  than  natural 
science,  so-called,  or  material  laws,  bring  about  altera- 
tion of  species  by  transforming  minerals  into  vegetables 
or  plants  into  animals,  —  thus  confusing  and  confounding 


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the  three  great  kingdoms.  No  rock  brings  forth  an  apple ; 
no  pine-tree  produces  a  mammal  or  provides  breast-milk 
for  babes. 

To  sense,  the  lion  of  to-day  is  the  lion  of  six  thousand 
years  ago ;  but  in  Science,  Spirit  sends  forth  its  own  harm- 
less likeness. 

How  should  I  undertake  to  demonstrate  Christian  Science 
in  healing  the  sickf 

As  I  have  given  you  only  an  epitome  of  the  Principle, 
so  I  can  give  you  here  nothing  but  an  outline  of  the  prac- 
tice. Be  honest,  be  true  to  thyself,  and  true  to  others; 
then  it  follows  thou  wilt  be  strong  in  God,  the  eternal 
good.  Heal  through  Truth  and  Love;  there  is  no  other 
healer. 

In  all  moral  revolutions,  from  a  lower  to  a  higher  con- 
dition of  thought  and  action,  Truth  is  in  the  minority  and 
error  has  the  majority.  It  is  not  otherwise  in  the  field 
of  Mind-healing.  The  man  who  calls  himself  a  Christian 
Scientist,  yet  is  false  to  God  and  man,  is  also  uttering 
falsehood  about  good.  This  falsity  shuts  against  him  the 
Truth  and  the  Principle  of  Science,  but  opens  a  way 
whereby,  through  will-power,  sense  may  say  the  unchris- 
tian practitioner  can  heal ;  but  Science  shows  that  he  makes 
morally  worse  the  invalid  whom  he  is  supposed  to  cure. 

By  this  I  mean  that  mortal  mind  should  not  be  falsely 
impregnated.  If  by  such  lower  means  the  health  is  seem- 
ingly restored,  the  restoration  is  not  lasting,  and  the  patient 


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is  liable  to  a  relapse,  —  "The  last  state  of  that  man  is 
worse  than  the  first." 

The  teacher  of  Mind-healing  who  is  not  a  Christian, 
in  the  highest  sense,  is  constantly  sowing  the  seeds  of 
discord  and  disease.  Even  the  truth  he  speaks  is  more 
or  less  blended  with  error;  and  this  error  will  spring  up 
in  the  mind  of  his  pupil.  The  pupil's  imperfect  knowl- 
edge will  lead  to  weakness  in  practice,  and  he  will  be  a 
poor  practitioner,  if  not  a  malpractitioner. 

The  basis  of  malpractice  is  in  erring  human  will,  and 
this  will  is  an  outcome  of  what  I  call  mortal  mind,  —  a 
false  and  temporal  sense  of  Truth,  Life,  and  Love.  To 
heal,  in  Christian  Science,  is  to  base  your  practice  on 
immortal  Mind,  the  divine  Principle  of  man's  being;  and 
this  requires  a  preparation  of  the  heart  and  an  answer 
of  the  lips  from  the  Lord. 

The  Science  of  healing  is  the  Truth  of  healing.  If 
one  is  untruthful,  his  mental  state  weighs  against  his 
healing  power;  and  similar  effects  come  from  pride, 
envy,  lust,  and  all  fleshly  vices. 

The  spiritual  power  of  a  scientific,  right  thought,  with- 
out a  direct  effort,  an  audible  or  even  a  mental  argument, 
has  oftentimes  healed  inveterate  diseases. 

The  thoughts  of  the  practitioner  should  be  imbued  with 
a  clear  conviction  of  the  omnipotence  and  omnipresence 
of  God ;  that  He  is  All,  and  that  there  can  be  none  beside 
Him;  that  God  is  good,  and  the  producer  only  of  good; 
and  hence,  that  whatever  militates  against  health,  har- 


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mony,  or  holiness,  is  an  unjust  usurper  of  the  throne  of 
the  controller  of  all  mankind.  Note  this,  that  if  you  have 
power  in  error,  you  forfeit  the  power  that  Truth  bestows, 
and  its  salutary  influence  on  yourself  and  others. 

You  must  feel  and  know  that  God  alone  governs  man; 
that  His  government  is  harmonious;  that  He  is  too  pure 
to  behold  iniquity,  and  divides  His  power  with  nothing 
evil  or  material;  that  material  laws  are  only  human  be- 
liefs, which  govern  mortals  wrongfully.  These  beliefs  arise 
from  the  subjective  states  of  thought,  producing  the  be- 
liefs of  a  mortal  material  universe,  —  so-called,  and  of 
material  disease  and  mortality.  Mortal  ills  are  but  errors 
of  thought,  —  diseases  of  mortal  mind,  and  not  of  matter; 
for  matter  cannot  feel,  see,  or  report  pain  or  disease. 

Disease  is  a  thing  of  thought  manifested  on  the  body; 
and  fear  is  the  procurator  of  the  thought  which  causes 
sickness  and  suffering.  Remove  this  fear  by  the  true 
sense  that  God  is  Love,  —  and  that  Love  punishes  nothing 
but  sin,  —  and  the  patient  can  then  look  up  to  the  loving 
God,  and  know  that  He  afflicteth  not  willingly  the  children 
of  men,  who  are  punished  because  of  disobedience  to  His 
spiritual  law.  His  law  of  Truth,  when  obeyed,  removes 
every  erroneous  physical  and  mental  state.  The  belief 
that  matter  can  master  Mind,  and  make  you  ill,  is  an 
error  which  Truth  will  destroy. 

You  must  learn  to  acknowledge  God  in  all  His  ways. 
It  is  only  a  lack  of  understanding  of  the  allness  of  God, 
which  leads  you  to  believe  in  the  existence  of  matter,  or 


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that  matter  can  frame  its  own  conditions,  contrary  to  the 
law  of  Spirit. 

Sickness  is  the  schoolmaster,  leading  you  to  Christ; 
first  to  faith  in  Christ;  next  to  belief  in  God  as  omnipo- 
tent; and  finally  to  the  understanding  of  God  and  man 
in  Christian  Science,  whereby  you  learn  that  God  is  good, 
and  in  Science  man  is  His  likeness,  the  forever  reflection  of 
goodness.  Therefore  good  is  one  and  All. 

This  brings  forward  the  next  proposition  in  Christian 
Science,  —  namely,  that  there  are  no  sickness,  sin,  and 
death  in  the  divine  Mind.  What  seem  to  be  disease,  vice, 
and  mortality  are  illusions  of  the  physical  senses.  These 
illusions  are  not  real,  but  unreal.  Health  is  the  conscious- 
ness of  the  unreality  of  pain  and  disease;  or,  rather,  the 
absolute  consciousness  of  harmony  and  of  nothing  else. 
In  a  moment  you  may  awake  from  a  night-dream;  just 
so  you  can  awake  from  the  dream  of  sickness;  but  the 
demonstration  of  the  Science  of  Mind-healing  by  no  means 
rests  on  the  strength  of  human  belief.  This  demonstra- 
tion is  based  on  a  true  understanding  of  God  and  divine 
Science,  which  takes  away  every  human  belief,  and, 
through  the  illumination  of  spiritual  understanding,  re- 
veals the  all-power  and  ever-presence  of  good,  whence 
emanate  health,  harmony,  and  Life  eternal. 

The  lecturer,  teacher,  or  healer  who  is  indeed  a  Christian 
Scientist,  never  introduces  the  subject  of  human  anatomy; 
never  depicts  the  muscular,  vascular,  or  nervous  opera- 
tions of  the  human  frame.  He  never  talks  about  the 


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structure  of  the  material  body.  He  never  lays  his  hands 
on  the  patient,  nor  manipulates  the  parts  of  the  body  sup- 
posed to  be  ailing.  Above  all,  he  keeps  unbroken  the  Ten 
Commandments,  and  practises  Christ's  Sermon  on  the 
Mount. 

Wrong  thoughts  and  methods  strengthen  the  sense  of 
disease,  instead  of  cure  it;  or  else  quiet  the  fear  of  the 
sick  on  false  grounds,  encouraging  them  in  the  belief  of 
error  until  they  hold  stronger  than  before  the  belief  that 
they  are  first  made  sick  by  matter,  and  then  restored 
through  its  agency.  This  fosters  infidelity,  and  is  mental 
quackery,  that  denies  the  Principle  of  Mind-healing.  If 
the  sick  are  aided  in  this  mistaken  fashion,  their  ailments 
will  return,  and  be  more  stubborn  because  the  relief  is 
unchristian  and  unscientific. 

Christian  Science  erases  from  the  minds  of  invalids 
their  mistaken  belief  that  they  live  in  or  because  of  matter, 
or  that  a  so-called  material  organism  controls  the  health 
or  existence  of  mankind,  and  induces  rest  in  God,  divine 
Love,  as  caring  for  all  the  conditions  requisite  for  the  well- 
being  of  man.  As  power  divine  is  the  healer,  why  should 
mortals  concern  themselves  with  the  chemistry  of  food? 
Jesus  said:  "Take  no  thought  what  ye  shall  eat." 

The  practitioner  should  also  endeavor  to  free  the  minds 
of  the  healthy  from  any  sense  of  subordination  to  their 
bodies,  and  teach  them  that  the  divine  Mind,  not  material 
law,  maintains  human  health  and  life. 

A  Christian  Scientist  knows  that,  in  Science,  disease 


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is  unreal;  that  Mind  is  not  in  matter;  that  Life  is  God, 
good;  hence  Life  is  not  functional,  and  is  neither  matter 
nor  mortal  mind;  knows  that  pantheism  and  theosophy 
are  not  Science.  Whatever  saps,  with  human  belief, 
this  basis  of  Christian  Science,  renders  it  impossible  to 
demonstrate  the  Principle  of  this  Science,  even  in  the 
smallest  degree. 

A  mortal  and  material  body  is  not  the  actual  individuality 
of  man  made  in  the  divine  and  spiritual  image  of  God. 
The  material  body  is  not  the  likeness  of  Spirit;  hence  it 
is  not  the  truth  of  being,  but  the  likeness  of  error  —  the 
human  belief  which  saith  there  is  more  than  one  God,  — 
there  is  more  than  one  Life  and  one  Mind. 

In  Deuteronomy  (iv.  35)  we  read:  "The  Lord,  He  is 
God;  there  is  none  else  beside  Him."  In  John  (iv.  24) 
we  may  read:  "God  is  Spirit."  These  propositions,  un- 
derstood in  their  Science,  elucidate  my  meaning. 

When  treating  a  patient,  it  is  not  Science  to  treat  every 
organ  in  the  body.  To  aver  that  harmony  is  the  real  and 
discord  is  the  unreal,  and  then  give  special  attention  to 
what  according  to  their  own  belief  is  diseased,  is  scientific ; 
and  if  the  healer  realizes  the  truth,  it  will  free  his  patient. 

What  are  the  means  and  methods  of  trustworthy  Christian 
Scientists  f 

These  people  should  not  be  expected,  more  than  others, 
to  give  all  their  time  to  Christian  Science  work,  receiving 
no  wages  in  return,  but  left  to  be  fed,  clothed,  and  sheltered 


14  RUDIMENTAL  DIVINE  SCIENCE 

by  charity.  Neither  can  they  serve  two  masters,  giving 
only  a  portion  of  their  time  to  God,  and  still  be  Christian 
Scientists.  They  must  give  Him  all  their  services,  and 
"owe  no  man."  To  do  this,  they  must  at  present  ask  a 
suitable  price  for  their  services,  and  then  conscientiously 
earn  their  wages,  strictly  practising  Divine  Science,  and 
healing  the  sick. 

The  author  never  sought  charitable  support,  but  gave 
fully  seven-eighths  of  her  time  without  remuneration,  ex- 
cept the  bliss  of  doing  good.  The  only  pay  taken  for  her 
labors  was  from  classes,  and  often  those  were  put  off  for 
months,  in  order  to  do  gratuitous  work.  She  has  never 
taught  a  Primary  class  without  several,  and  sometimes 
seventeen,  free  students  in  it;  and  has  endeavored  to  take 
the  full  price  of  tuition  only  from  those  who  were  able  to 
pay.  The  student  who  pays  must  of  necessity  do  better 
than  he  who  does  not  pay,  and  yet  will  expect  and  require 
others  to  pay  him.  No  discount  on  tuition  was  made  on 
higher  classes,  because  their  first  classes  furnished  students 
with  the  means  of  paying  for  their  tuition  in  the  higher 
instruction,  and  of  doing  charity  work  besides.  If  the 
Primary  students  are  still  impecunious,  it  is  their  own 
fault,  and  this  ill-success  of  itself  leaves  them  unprepared 
to  enter  higher  classes. 

People  are  being  healed  by  means  of  my  instructions, 
both  in  and  out  of  class.  Many  students,  who  have 
passed  through  a  regular  course  of  instruction  from  me, 
have  been  invalids  and  were  healed  in  the  class;  but  ex- 


RUDIMENTAL  DIVINE  SCIENCE  15 

perience  has  shown  that  this  defrauds  the  scholar,  though 
it  heals  the  sick. 

It  is  seldom  that  a  student,  if  healed  in  a  class,  has  left 
it  understanding  sufficiently  the  Science  of  healing  to  im- 
mediately enter  upon  its  practice.  Why?  Because  the 
glad  surprise  of  suddenly  regained  health  is  a  shock  to 
the  mind;  and  this  holds  and  satisfies  the  thought  with 
exuberant  joy. 

This  renders  the  mind  less  inquisitive,  plastic,  and  tract- 
able; and  deep  systematic  thinking  is  impracticable  until 
this  impulse  subsides. 

This  was  the  principal  reason  for  advising  diseased 
people  not  to  enter  a  class.  Few  were  taken  besides  inva- 
lids for  students,  until  there  were  enough  practitioners  to 
fill  in  the  best  possible  manner  the  department  of  healing. 
Teaching  and  healing  should  have  separate  departments, 
and  these  should  be  fortified  on  all  sides  with  suitable  and 
thorough  guardianship  and  grace. 

Only  a  very  limited  number  of  students  can  advanta- 
geously enter  a  class,  grapple  with  this  subject,  and  well 
assimilate  what  has  been  taught  them.  It  is  impossible 
to  teach  thorough  Christian  Science  to  promiscuous  and 
large  assemblies,  or  to  persons  who  cannot  be  addressed 
individually,  so  that  the  mind  of  the  pupil  may  be  dissected 
more  critically  than  the  body  of  a  subject  laid  bare  for 
anatomical  examination.  Public  lectures  cannot  be  such 
lessons  in  Christian  Science  as  are  required  to  empty  and 
to  fill  anew  the  individual  mind. 


16  RUDIMENTAL  DIVINE  SCIENCE 

If  publicity  and  material  control  are  the  motives  for 
teaching,  then  public  lectures  can  take  the  place  of  private 
lessons ;  but  the  former  can  never  give  a  thorough  knowledge 
of  Christian  Science,  and  a  Christian  Scientist  will  never 
undertake  to  fit  students  for  practice  by  such  means.  Lec- 
tures in  public  are  needed,  but  they  must  be  subordinate 
to  thorough  class  instruction  in  any  branch  of  education. 

None  with  an  imperfect  sense  of  the  spiritual  significa- 
tion of  the  Bible,  and  its  scientific  relation  to  Mind- 
healing,  should  attempt  overmuch  in  their  translation  of 
the  Scriptures  into  the  "new  tongue;"  but  I  see  that 
some  novices,  in  the  truth  of  Science,  and  some  impostors 
are  committing  this  error. 

Is  there  more  than  one  school  of  scientific  healing  f 

In  reality  there  is,  and  can  be,  but  one  school  of  the 
Science  of  Mind-healing.  Any  departure  from  Science  is 
an  irreparable  loss  of  Science.  Whatever  is  said  and 
written  correctly  on  this  Science  originates  from  the  Princi- 
ple and  practice  laid  down  in  Science  and  Health,  a  work 
which  I  published  in  1875.  This  was  the  first  book,  re- 
corded in  history,  which  elucidates  a  pathological  Science 
purely  mental. 

Minor  shades  of  difference  in  Mind-healing  have  origi- 
nated with  certain  opposing  factions,  springing  up  among 
unchristian  students,  who,  fusing  with  a  class  of  aspirants 
which  snatch  at  whatever  is  progressive,  call  it  their  first- 
fruits,  or  else  post  mortem  evidence. 


RUDIMENTAL  DIVINE  SCIENCE  17 

A  slight  divergence  is  fatal  in  Science.  Like  certain 
Jews  whom  St.  Paul  had  hoped  to  convert  from  mere 
motives  of  self-aggrandizement  to  the  love  of  Christ,  these 
so-called  schools  are  clogging  the  wheels  of  progress  by 
blinding  the  people  to  the  true  character  of  Christian 
Science,  —  its  moral  power,  and  its  divine  efficacy  to 
heal. 

The  true  understanding  of  Christian  Science  Mind- 
healing  never  originated  in  pride,  rivalry,  or  the  deification 
of  self.  The  Discoverer  of  this  Science  could  tell  you  of 
timidity,  of  self-distrust,  of  friendlessness,  toil,  agonies,  and 
victories,  under  which  she  needed  miraculous  vision  to 
sustain  her,  when  taking  the  first  footsteps  in  this 
Science. 

The  ways  of  Christianity  have  not  changed.  Meek- 
ness, selflessness,  and  love  are  the  paths  of  His  testimony 
and  the  footsteps  of  His  flock. 


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